Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The young of the sea-trout.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The young of the sea trout.
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Examples
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The life-history of sea-trout is much the same as that of salmon, and the fish on their first return from the sea in the grilse-stage are called by many names, finnock, herling and whitling being perhaps the best known.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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November, when the various streams and tributaries are taken possession of both by sea-trout and herling, spawning in deep or shallow water, according to their individual size.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
hernesheir commented on the word herling
It's a fish.
October 25, 2011